Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.
If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not. . . What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?
I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.
Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.
Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.
Know that you are always safe. And also know that it's possible to move from the old to the new, easily and peacefully.
Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they'll say, "no. " If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they'll say, "Yes. "
I was always real back and forth about the whole religion and God. That comes from me just dealing with that pain when I was younger, and just growing up, living that particular street lifestyle. It brought my relationship with God into question many times. I wanted to repair that and fix that, and that's what I went in and did. I did all of that. I wrote many albums and all that kind of stuff, but the most important part was fixing my mind, body, and soul; getting it together, really getting it together where I could have a future, and a successful future.